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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney
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David Hockney
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 9
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
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Lithographer
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Bradford
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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
David Hockney
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
David Hockney
You must plan to be spontaneous.
David Hockney
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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California is always in my mind.
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If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
David Hockney
I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
David Hockney
I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
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